When Patti and Mike Morgan built a home on the lake, they decided to rely on their own experience and creativity rather than on outside help. Mike has been in the construction business for forty-six years and is a real estate developer, so the experience was a given.
Following the Parade of Homes the HBA announced the winners of this year’s competition. A home built by Armada Homes of Sherman took top honors in five categories including the Judges’ Choice. The 2010 Texoma Parade of Homes sponsored by the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Grayson, Fannin and Cooke Counties ended its second annual [...]
When the owner of this magnificent estate began to plan his lake home he wanted to create an environment reminiscent of Montana’s wilderness areas. Giant pine and spruce logs—some of the largest diameter logs in North America—were cut and prepared for construction near their growth site, then transported over fifteen-hundred miles by truck to Lake [...]
Martha Hovers has been operating Arfhouse in Sadler for twenty years, ever since she transformed her grandfather’s farm into a “no-kill” animal shelter. “No-kill” means just that. No dogs are ever put down at the shelter. At last count, the facility has 314 dogs that patrol the property and greet newcomers to the gate with [...]
Three times a year, participants gather at the community room in the Tom Bean City Hall to test their skills in the game—or is it the art?—of Pokémon. (Editor’s Note: This seems a good spot for a time out to explain what Pokémon is for those who don’t know, but we will pass. There is [...]
They take your breath away when you first see them, the hundreds of dolls lined up inside Mama Muriel’s Doll Museum in Leonard. Dolls of all types imaginable wait in glass cases to catch your eye. Then, out of all the painted faces, you spy a certain doll, one just like a favorite you played [...]
Laura Barajas has patrolled downtown Sherman for ten years, armed only with a radio and her formidable chalking stick. She wears a grey Sherman P.D. t-shirt, blue shorts, and a farmer’s tan. She walks about a mile on each of her routes, taking approximately eight thousand brisk steps a day. Barajas writes an average of [...]
In a small shed behind Dorothy Hayes’ home on Sherman’s west side, tiny clenched fists poke up among empty, eyeless heads. Assorted sizes of arms, legs and other body parts line shelves along the wall. A scene left over from Halloween? No, something much more innocent. Hayes’ home is a one-woman doll factory. Hayes shares [...]
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines fine art as “art produced or intended primarily for beauty rather than utility.” Other sources point out the word fine as not describing the quality of the work in question, but the purity of the method used to produce it. These definitions sound perfectly reasonable in [...]
You might expect to see this mostly monochromatic look in a New York City penthouse, but it seems the glitz and glamour style of the 30s and 40s may be due for a return this next year to homes, much closer to home. Every season the fashion and color experts pronounce the coming trends and [...]
